Enjoy this easy homemade doughnut..
Kate's Homemade Doughnuts
Adding a little sweetness complements the flavor of the doughnut and leaves you wanting more. This delight can be eaten on its own — although it is very nice with coffee or milk.
Ingredients
- 1 handful Traditional White Bucket of Bread Take as much as you need for the amount of doughnuts you need to make. Want a twist? Try this with Hearty Wheat using the honey option on the back of the bucket!
- Vegetable oil Use as much as you need in your fryer or pan
- Favorite sweet toppings Get creative!
Instructions
- Get out your Bucket of Bread Traditional White.
- Pull out a small piece of dough (the refrigerated dough works best as it is less sticky) and make a ball.
- Poke a hole in the ball with your fingers and stretch it out a little. You may even use a cookie cutter.
- Heat about 2-3 inches of oil to 375 F. One way to check the oil is to dip the handle of a wooden spoon into the preheated oil. If it begins to bubble steadily, the oil is hot enough for frying. If it bubbles vigorously, the oil is probably too hot and needs to cool off just a bit. If there are not any or very few bubbles popping up, it’s simply not hot enough.
- Gently place (please be careful!) a doughnut shape of dough into the oil. It will sink to the bottom. When it floats turn it using tongs. Keep an eye on it as it cooks as you don't want this too browned. Your probably looking at a about a minute on each side.
- Drain fried donuts on a wire rack set over a large tray, or on paper towels.
- If you are glazing or dipping the donuts, allow them to cool first. If you wish to roll them in sugar and/or cinnamon, roll them while they are still hot but has cooled down a bit to be handled.
- Make as many as you want and add whatever toppings you can dream up.
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Notes
This recipe is inspired by Kate, a real Bucket of Bread user, who shared her fried doughnut (or donut) picture here. Thanks, Kate!
Ideas for Sweetness:
Create a batch of simple syrup to use as a bath in which to dip your finished doughnut. Just heat up some water and add sugar until the crystals are gone. Use a ratio of 3 parts water to 1 part sugar.
More Ideas for Some Sweetness:
Cinnamon and sugar, sprinkles, chocolate, maple and bacon even, use your own creativity and make something yummy! Share your ideas with Bucket of Bread and get the word out!
Random Internet Facts:
- Fried dough was introduced to New York back when the area was known as New Amsterdam and Dutch was the predominant language. The early Americans took the fact that the treats were fried in oil quite literally, naming them olykoeks, translating to "oily cakes." The word 'donut' came soon after when a woman is said to have put nuts in the dough before frying it. Today's biggest debate is whether the word is spelled 'donut' or 'doughnut.' Which one is technically correct? No one really knows!
- As the story goes, a New England woman named Elizabeth Gregory fried some dough to send with her son for his voyage at sea during the 19th century. Elizabeth was the one who fried the dough with nuts, leading to the name 'donut,' but her son was the one who put a hole in the center, giving us the classic donut shape. The young sailor is said to have skewered the donut through one of the spokes on the ship's wheel to hold the donut while using both hands to steer the ship.
- We owe our addiction to donuts to a Russian man named Adolph Levitt, the inventor of the donut machine. The contraption launched donut production from local bakeries to mass production facilities, leading to a boom in donut popularity and sales. The Salvation Army caught wind of the trend and decided to use donuts as a part of their promotion to honor soldiers fighting in World War I. "Donut lassies" fried up the treats and served them to members of the U.S. military in France and Germany.
- Vernon Rudolph bought the secret recipe for the Krispy Kreme donut from a Frenchmen in New Orleans and brought back the recipe to North Carolina where Krispy Kreme Donuts was born. The cult-classic donut shop first opened its doors on July 13, 1937 in Winston-Salem and has been booming in business ever since. The company recently celebrated 75 years in 2012 and its 1,000th store in 2015!
- Over 10 billion donuts are made in the US every year, and 17 million of those are produced at one single donut chain! (Lamar's Donuts, in case you're curious.)
- The most expensive donut in the world was made by Krispy Kreme and sold for more than $1,000. The 23-carat, gold-dusted donut was filled with Dom Pérignon Champagne jelly, sprinkled with 24-carat gold leaf and edible diamonds. Now that's one rich dessert.
- The biggest donut ever made was an American-style jelly donut, weighing in at 1.7 tons and measuring 1 foot tall.
- Renee Zellweger ate 20 donuts every day to gain weight for her role in Bridget Jones' Diary, according to the Daily Mail. She claims, "one doughnut doesn't do a thing. You've got to eat 20 a day for five weeks before you get results." Where do we sign up?
- Half an hour of vigorous biking burns an average of 200 calories—the equivalent on one glazed donut. Does it count if we eat as we peddle?
- Chains across the country offer promotions throughout the year, but National Donut Day is time time to get your fix without dropping a dime.
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